The State - News from Oct. 15, 1986

The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking a federal court order allowing an Atascadero kindergartner with AIDS to return to the school where he was suspended after biting a classmate. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the ACLU also said that the Atascadero Unified School District violated federal and state anti-discrimination laws by barring 5-year-old Ryan Thomas from his kindergarten class. There is little danger that Ryan, who contracted the fatal disease from a blood transfusion, could infect classmates, the suit said. ACLU attorney Paul Hoffman said the suit was filed after earlier attempts to solve the problem outside the courtroom failed.